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Nine Lives to Murder
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This whimsical mystery starring an actor who takes a fall and wakes up as a feline is “quite simply, the cat’s meow” (Publishers Weekly).
Shakespearean actor Winstanley Fortescue is known as a hound dog when it comes to the ladies. But when someone pushes him off a ladder, he falls on the theater’s resident cat—and somehow the two of them wind up trading bodies.
It takes a while to get used to living on four legs, but it’s the perfect way for Winstanley to sneak around while he tries to uncover the attempted murderer, in this fun “first-rate” mystery from an Agatha Award–winning author (Library Journal).
“Clever and witty.”—Booklist
Shakespearean actor Winstanley Fortescue is known as a hound dog when it comes to the ladies. But when someone pushes him off a ladder, he falls on the theater’s resident cat—and somehow the two of them wind up trading bodies.
It takes a while to get used to living on four legs, but it’s the perfect way for Winstanley to sneak around while he tries to uncover the attempted murderer, in this fun “first-rate” mystery from an Agatha Award–winning author (Library Journal).
“Clever and witty.”—Booklist
Author
Marian Babson
Marian Babson, born Ruth Stenstreem, is an American mystery writer. Her first published work was Cover-Up Story (1971), and she has written over forty-five mysteries. Babson served as secretary of the Crime Writers’ Association and was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library in 1996.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A completely delicious bit of nonsense! Fans of the theatre and cats will love it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a wonderful fantasy mystery. An actor, falling in an "accident" intended to kill him, collides with a cat, and they exchange brains. The actor in a cat body must attempt to figure out who is trying to kill him, and how to get back into his own body. Babson is quite clever in exploring the distinctions between what follows from the body and the mind. There is a wonderful, evocative sentence expressing the frustrations of being a small animal. A book I have found very memorable. I generally like Babson as a reliably amusing author when I want a fun read, but this is something special.
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